Sandy, I ran across polling data that stated that Tea Partiers went 53-33 for McConnell. Not exactly consistent with your premise. In ANY election, the incumbent is at a serious disadvantage when up against a career politician with name recognition, free postage and weekly or daily C-SPAN, ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS access that even the Koch brothers can't match.
This result also goes against the obsession that Harry Reid and folks such as yourself have with the Koch brothers. If the Koch brothers are so impotent with all that money flying around that is supposedly buying our democracy, yet their money doesn't get results, then you should rejoice that they are "stimulating" the economy by giving it out to "hardworkingamericans" who are employed in advertising, TV, radio, print, etc. They are "redistributing" their wealth with any cost to government.
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